An adjoint analysis of the meridional overturning circulation in an ocean model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3732-3750

  Bugnion, Véronique ^a   Hill, Chris ^a   Stone, Peter H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND; WIND STRESS;

ADJOINT ANALYSIS; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; SURFACE BOUNDARY FORCING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CIRCULATION MODELING; DOWNWELLING; EKMAN LAYER; OVERTURN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPWELLING; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 33748321064     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3787.1     Document Type: Article

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